Rhode Island · Nonprofit
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Rhode Island) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,448,419 to it, the largest being ALOHA FOUNDATION ($1,650,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $2.7M
- Funders on record
- 56
- Grants received
- $5.4M
- Net assets
- $4.9M
What Southside Community Land Trust does
Mission
Southside Community Land Trust's mission is to provide access to land, education and other resources so people in rhode island can grow food in environmentally sustainable ways and create community food systems where locally produced, affordable and healthy food is available to all.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Sclt owns and manages 50+ community gardens, urban and peri-urban farms in providence, pawtucket, central falls and cranston. We provide gardeners and farmers with education, gardening resources and access to land where they can grow their own, healthy food. We also expose 225 children to gardening and nutrition education each year, including 25-30 youth and young adults who work part-time managing sclt's youth enterprise farm, acquiring workplace skills, conducting community outreach and teaching young children about healthy eating and basic gardening skills. High school and young adult staff expand their knowledge of agriculture through field trips and work at partner organizations, as well as develop leadership and advocacy skills around the availability of affordable, fresh food and public health.
$615,188 spent36% of program spendingSclt manages a large farmer training and apprenticeship program (the only one of its kind in rhode island), as well as produce aggregation and farmland access programs. We partner with farm agencies and agricultural nonprofits to offer more than two dozen workshops each year for beginning and aspiring sustainable farmers on topics from pest management to irrigation and taxes. We oversee the recruiting and funding of four-to-five farm apprenticeships each year, and collect, wash/weigh and sell produce on behalf of 10 urban farmers to area food retailers. Our farmland access program helps match beginning farmers with available land parcels throughout the state.
$761,274 spent44% of program spendingCity farm, sclt's 3/4-acre production and demonstration farm, provides an important revenue stream as well as educates hundreds of visitors and volunteers each year about bio-intensive, chemical-free urban agriculture. Roughly 2,000 people (including many of our 500 members) come to city farm each may for our two-day plant sale. City farm staff grow and sell produce all season long that is sold at farmers markets and to local restaurants. Sclt partners with local colleges and universities to provide hands-on learning opportunities and internships annually.
$17,144 spent1% of program spendingThe agricultural infrastructure program builds and maintains community gardens, urban farms and farms for beginning farmers.
$326,539 spent19% of program spending
The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $1,720,145.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $3.2M to $4.4M (+38%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 26% · 2018 32% · 2019 22% · 2020 27% · 2021 32% · 2022 38% · 2023 46% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
79% of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (82% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 25 funders, grant income rose $135k → $774k.
13 of 56 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 29% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 56 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
34% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 81% · 2018 89% · 2019 46% · 2020 46% · 2021 30% · 2022 27% · 2023 26% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
60% of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 59% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST draws 81% of its grant income from funders outside Rhode Island, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST has grown faster than half of the 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,910 philanthropy nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Government funding SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $4.6M on record.
- Department of Agriculture$3.9M
- Department of Health and Human Services$499k
- Department of Housing and Urban Development$190k
- Environmental Protection Agency$30k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Rhode Island
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
60% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST (Rhode Island) receives grants from 56 organizations whose IRS filings report $5,448,419 to it, the largest being ALOHA FOUNDATION ($1,650,000). 33 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST have?
- IRS filings report 56 organizations giving $5,448,419 in grants to SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST, 33 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST?
- ALOHA FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,650,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Rhode Island. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 56 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing